Authority Quotes

2019 Authority quotes by 1321 unique authors

I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change… — Abbie Hoffman
There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding. — Robert Duvall
Our agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan's plan of force. With this sublime gift, we can… — James E. Faust
Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role… — Parker J. Palmer
When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders. — Craig Groeschel
If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government,… — Thomas Jefferson
It is just as important to trust God as it is to obey Him. When we disobey God we defy His authority and despise His… — Jerry Bridges
The greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you. — John Bevere
You are your own highest authority. Do not place your source of authority outside of you. Go within to see if the truth you've found… — Neale Donald Walsch
The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one… — Roy Moore
Until we stand in a place where we have met God, we have no authority to change a Nation — Lou Engle
We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts… — Henry David Thoreau
One of the greatest things you have in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want to be. You're… — Jaime Escalante
Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd. — William Penn
Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority. — Andrew Jackson
In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of… — Martha Gellhorn
Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority that came before… — Greg Graffin
I condemn the entry of a Russian so-called humanitarian convoy into Ukrainian territory without the consent of the Ukrainian authorities and without any involvement of… — Anders Fogh Rasmussen
I don't know how to run your life. I don't know how to run your life. I don't have the authority to run your life.… — Ron Paul
Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is… — Ronald Reagan
The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power,… — John Stott
They can't chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can't contain it! Laws can't restrain it! Authority has no power over it! — Bill Watterson
When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you… — Adrienne Rich
A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council. — Martin Luther
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was… — Robert Anton Wilson

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